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Stephen Shrubsall

Nine hours to ride 50km: This wasn't just the hardest ride I'd done, it was pure survival

Fat Viking event in Norway.

I realised I’d bitten off a little more than I could chew at the two kilometre mark. I’d been riding for just shy of an hour and although my brain had already begun to misfire I still had a grasp of rudimentary arithmetic: At this rate completing the 150km Fat Viking event in Geilo, Norway would take about three days.

That's three long days in icy cold conditions – and we’re not talking about a bit of frost on the car windscreen here, we’re talking about the kind that takes your fingers off.

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